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1827 Jany. 24

Manifold Writing; as described in the Westminster
Review No XIII XII for October 1826 p. 486:
Specimens of it in those different hands.

I. Extracts from the Right Honourable Robert Peel's
Speech on Criminal Law March 9th 1826.

1. Page 3. "It appears so conformable to the dictates
"of common sense, that the law, of which all men
"are supposed to have cognizance – and which all
"are bound under heavy penalties to obey, should be
"as precise and intelligible as it can be made – that
"it is almost needless to fortify by reasoning or authority,
"the first impressions of the understanding."

2. Foreign Page 5. "Foreign nations have condensed
"and simplified their laws – and have disentitled us
"to vindicate the confusion or uncertainty of our own
"statutes, by the boast (weak and fruitless as an argument,
"if it were well founded) that these statutes
"are less confused and less uncertain than the ordinances
of other states."

II. Extract from Mr Anthony Hammonds "Letter to the
"Members of the Different Circuits. Michaelmas Term 1826

Page 12 "The time must ultimately arrive when, at least,
"the Criminal Common Law will be reduced to Uniting;
" and, to this end, a code of this description is a necessary
"preliminary."

III Extract from Mr Hammonds Correspondence with the
Commissioners of New York Jany. 6 1826

Page 26. "The laws are not made by the legislature: a
"serious evil in regard to political offences.
"It is owing, however, to this very imperfection
"that, from the quantity of materials to which the system
"has given birth, we are, beyond any other nation, in possession
"of means for framing a written Code.
"General rules never can be laid down accurately at first.
"Experience only can point out their proper qualifications,
"limitations, exceptions, and relative bearings. This experience
"we possess in the volumes of judicial controversies to which
"the unwritten system has given birth."

Identifier: | JB/011/245/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1827-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	245	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	manifold writing: as described in the westminster review no xii for october 1826 p. 486: speciments of it in three different hands
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	3942
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